MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mel Brooks
Genres: Comedy, Western
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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard_Pryor, features Cleavon_Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene_Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey_Korman, Slim_Pickens, and Madeline_Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene_Dietrich. As in Young_Frankenstein (1974), Silent_Movie (1976), and High_Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel_Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert_Altman and Peter_Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. Robert Firsching, Rovi

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